Chumbawamba wrote Tubthumping as a working-class anthem. We won't have it stolen by the right | Boff Whalley
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from www.theguardian.com6 months ago
The beauty of writing a song that revolves around a universal idea is that people feel like it could be theirs: it voices the way they're feeling.
www.theguardian.comhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/my-band-hit-tubthumping-is-the-latest-working-class-anthem-to-be-co-opted-by-populist-politicians
This is how songs become folk songs: songs that belong to our shared histories, not to a single version performed by a single artist.
www.theguardian.comhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/my-band-hit-tubthumping-is-the-latest-working-class-anthem-to-be-co-opted-by-populist-politicians
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